Wayland is an alternative to entire X thing. It manages your display as X does, but its way of doing it is completely different.

In X, programs tells X server to draw a rectangle, draw a circle, fill a region, write some textual data, etc. on their windows and X server does all the drawings for the program. This is called indirect rendering.

In wayland the server distributes portions of computer memory to the programs and programs do the drawings on the assigned memory. The provided memory is shared between programs and wayland server which can then use these to assemble your desktop. This is called direct rendering.

I have downloaded and tested wayland. Weston doesn't work in precise puppy (It simply hangs indefinitely) but works in slacko 5.5.

I also tried gtk3 but it has severe problems in wayland. GTK3 windows have no frames and don't always respond to clicks.

My estimate is that wayland will be faster, but will require more memory than X.

You should have tested Wayland in upup Raring. In my humble view, of all the puppies it's the most wayland-ready. I was doing a search for something in my upup Raring the other day and came across the following:

Wayland cometh to Puppy - unannounced and uninvited? In my layman's view it's a technology of the future, not yet implemented in Ubuntu. With that in mind, I did what a good Luddite would do - purged the intruder out of the system. Restart x, no ill effects. Quite the opposite - as Puppy became lighter in weight by 128K. Something to consider before remastering

I may play with it in a version of myz (minimal racy) but under another code, as from reading since the early days of it's announcements it is a different way of doing things by offloading operations from the users display, so that the display is just for that function, especially considering if you are operating within a cloud. However I did try to build it last year and could not get it to function with any stability.

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